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In this paper we review some results on the Riemannian and almost Hermitian geometry of twistor spaces of oriented Riemannian $4$-manifolds with emphasis on their curvature properties.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Johann Davidov , Oleg Mushkarov

We study a positivity preservation property for Schr\"odinger operators with singular potential on geodesically complete Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature. We apply this property to the question of self-adjointness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Ognjen Milatovic

We show any Riemannian curvature model can be geometrically realized by a manifold with constant scalar curvature. We also show that any pseudo-Hermitian curvature model, para-Hermitian curvature model, hyper-pseudo-Hermitian curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-12 M. Brozos-Vazquez , P. Gilkey , H. Kang , S. Nikcevic , G. Weingart

We show that every paracomplex space form is locally isometric to a modified Riemannian extension and give necessary and sufficient conditions so that a modified Riemannian extension is Einstein. We exhibit Riemannian extension Osserman…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-13 E. Calvino-Louzao , E. Garcia-Rio , P. Gilkey , R. Vazquez-Lorenzo

We show that the unit tangent bundle of S^4 and a real cohomology CP^3 admit Riemannian metrics with positive sectional curvature almost everywhere. These are the only examples so far with positive curvature almost everywhere that are not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Peter Petersen , Frederick Wilhelm

An algebraic formulation of Riemannian geometry on quantum spaces is presented, where Riemannian metric, distance, Laplacian, connection, and curvature have their counterparts. This description is also extended to complex manifolds.…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-28 Pei-Ming Ho

We report on some advances made in the problem of singularities in general relativity. First is introduced the singular semi-Riemannian geometry for metrics which can change their signature (in particular be degenerate). The standard…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-20 Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

This paper investigates conformal deformations of the scalar curvature and mean curvature on complete Riemannian manifolds with boundary. We establish sufficient conditions for the existence of conformal deformations to complete metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Tiarlos Cruz , Almir Silva Santos

In this paper we consider rough differential equations on a smooth manifold $\left( M\right) .$ The main result of this paper gives sufficient conditions on the driving vector-fields so that the rough ODE's have global (in time) solutions.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-10 Bruce K. Driver

Motivated by Wick-rotations of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, we study real geometric invariant theory (GIT) and compatible representations. We extend some of the results from earlier works \cite{W2,W1}, in particular, we give some sufficient…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Christer Helleland , Sigbjorn Hervik

Some curvature estimates are derived from geometrical data concerning quasi-conformality properties of some commuting linearly independent vector fields on a compact Riemannian manifold.

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Pawel Walczak

This paper is devoted to the study of the global properties of harmonically immersed Riemann surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3.$ We focus on the geometry of complete harmonic immersions with quasiconformal Gauss map, and in particular, of those…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-04 Antonio Alarcon , Francisco J. Lopez

A theory of graded manifolds can be viewed as a generalization of differential geometry of smooth manifolds. It allows one to work with functions which locally depend not only on ordinary real variables, but also on $\mathbb{Z}$-graded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Jan Vysoky

We study the Riemann curvature tensor of (\kappa,\mu,\nu)-contact metric manifolds, which we prove to be completely determined in dimension 3, and we observe how it is affected by D_a-homothetic deformations. This prompts the definition and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Kadri Arslan , Alfonso Carriazo , Verónica Martín-Molina , Cengizhan Murathan

A Riemannian geometry of noncommutative n-dimensional surfaces is developed as a first step towards the construction of a consistent noncommutative gravitational theory. Historically, as well, Riemannian geometry was recognized to be the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Chaichian , A. Tureanu , R. B. Zhang , X. Zhang

These notes on Riemannian geometry use the bases bundle and frame bundle, as in Geometry of Manifolds, to express the geometric structures. It has more problems and omits the background material. It starts with the definition of Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Richard L. Bishop

The main object of the present paper is to study the geometric properties of a generalized Roter type semi-Riemannian manifold, which arose in the way of generalization to find the form of the Riemann-Christoffel curvature tensor $R$. Again…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-05 Absos Ali Shaikh , Haradhan Kundu

In this paper, we establish and employ a local framework to the first order of Riemann's curvature tensor in order to develop the corresponding coordinate non commutativity into general manifolds. We also exploit a new translation of…

General Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Abolfazl Jafari

For k at least 2, we exhibit complete k-curvature homogeneous neutral signature pseudo-Riemannian manifolds which are not locally affine homogeneous (and hence not locally homogeneous). The curvature tensor of these manifolds is modeled on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter Gilkey , Stana Nikcevic

We study some sub-Riemannian objects (such as horizontal connectivity, horizontal connection, horizontal tangent plane, horizontal mean curvature) in hypersurfaces of sub-Riemannian manifolds. We prove that if a connected hypersurface in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kang-Hai Tan , Xiao-Ping Yang